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Bearing witness after the witnesses are gone: How to bring Holocaust education home for a new generation Holocaust

Bearing witness after the witnesses are gone: How to bring Holocaust education home for a new generation

Joe Engel was and remains an icon in Charleston, South Carolina. Born in Zakroczym, Poland, he survived Auschwitz and several other concentration camps and fought with the resistance before landing on American shores as a refugee in 1949. After retirement from his dry-cleaning business, Engel focused his later years on…
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January 21, 2026
You’d be speaking German and little Japanese if not for US, Trump tells world leaders at Davos WEF

You’d be speaking German and little Japanese if not for US, Trump tells world leaders at Davos

 US President Donald Trump says German and a little Japanese would have dominated global lingua franca had America not intervened. Trump spoke on Wednesday when he took the stage at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, to tell European leaders the US won World War II “big”. “Without…
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January 21, 2026
Bessent calls Denmark ‘irrelevant,’ shrugs off US Treasury sell-off amid Trump’s Greenland threats Greenland

Bessent calls Denmark ‘irrelevant,’ shrugs off US Treasury sell-off amid Trump’s Greenland threats

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called Denmark “irrelevant” Wednesday as he shrugged off concerns about a US Treasury sell-off following President Trump’s heightened threats to annex Greenland.  The “sell America” effect shook global markets Tuesday in the first day of trading after Trump announced new 10% tariffs – set to take…
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January 21, 2026
Michelle Obama admits her marriage to Barrack ‘is constant work’  Michelle Obama

Michelle Obama admits her marriage to Barrack ‘is constant work’ 

Michelle Obama revealed she and Barack Obama have attended couples therapy and are constantly working on their 33-year marriage. While speaking with Alex Cooper on Wednesday’s episode of “Call Her Daddy,” the former first lady admitted to being a big “believer in therapy.” “We’ve been in couples therapy,” Michelle, 62,…
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January 21, 2026
‘I’m for it’: Johnson endorses impeachment for judges who rule against Trump Impeachment

‘I’m for it’: Johnson endorses impeachment for judges who rule against Trump

Speaker Mike Johnson now supports the push inside his party to bring impeachment articles against judges perceived as antagonistic of President Donald Trump’s agenda — a notable shift for the Louisiana Republican who over the summer sought to squelch such effort. "I'm for it," Johnson told reporters at his weekly…
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January 21, 2026
“We would be frankly unstoppable”: Trump dances around Greenland threats at Davos Greenland

“We would be frankly unstoppable”: Trump dances around Greenland threats at Davos

The president spoke of Greenland with the noncommittal menace of a mobster at the World Economic Forum Published January 21, 2026 1:38PM (EST) Donald Trump at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 21, 2026. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Donald Trump continued to push for the U.S. acquisition of Greenland…
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January 21, 2026
Pakistan flags Kashmir, Palestine at UN crimes against humanity treaty preparatory panel Palestine

Pakistan flags Kashmir, Palestine at UN crimes against humanity treaty preparatory panel

At the UN, Pakistan's envoy Zulfiqar Ali calls for accountability for atrocities in Kashmir and Palestine, emphasizing the need for a global treaty on Crimes Against Humanity. Islamabad’s envoy Zulfiqar Ali urges end to impunity for atrocity crimes, citing abuses in occupied Kashmir, Palestine Calls accountability key to victims’ dignity…
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January 21, 2026